Richard Nixon: “There is hereby established the National Industrial Pollution Control Council.”

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.

It is only a beginning, always.

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…